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   dxf  writes:   
   > When you say 'get around it', do you mean a broken line?   
      
   The trouble distinguishing between a broken and an unbroken line when   
   u1=line length.  I think for roff though, it's ok to abandon the wish to   
   handle arbitrarily long lines.  The deficiency in the standard is not   
   explaining READ-LINE's exact behaviour in this situation.  I was able to   
   experimentally resolve the issue in gforth, but other Forths might vary.   
      
   I had for a while liked the idea of running the entire input document   
   through the text interpreter (wordlists or some other scheme would stop   
   non-formatting-commands from being looked up as Forth words).  But I   
   later mostly lost interest in that.   
      
   I guess in the text interpreter, the interpreter is at the beginning of   
   a line iff IN> @ gives 0, and maybe Roff could use that.   
      
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